Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Sierra Leone and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Curtis Mayfield to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Panda Bear,
Wings,
Alison Limerick,
Al Stewart,
These Immortal Souls,
Lalann,
Warren Ellis,
Funkadelic,
The Cowsills,
DNA,
Reagan Youth,
The Remains,
Derrick Morgan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Quando Quango,
Todd Rundgren,
Dave Gahan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Danielle Patucci,
Fat Boys,
Rekid,
The Gun Club,
Roxette,
Royal Trux,
Barry Ungar,
The Selecter,
Janne Schatter,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Toni Rubio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Icehouse,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tubeway Army,
Prince Buster,
Lungfish,
Flipper,
Wire,
Barbara Tucker,
Joey Negro,
Scientists,
Minor Threat,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
James White and The Blacks,
Fela Kuti,
The Velvet Underground,
Main Source,
Excepter,
Rhythm & Sound,
Harmonia,
Brass Construction,
D'Angelo,
Minnie Riperton,
U.S. Maple,
Darondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Womack,
Albert Ayler,
Marine Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.